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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 421

Three: Private F. Camp, 1/5th Bedfordshire Regiment, who died of wounds in Palestine in March 1918

1914-15 Star (14997 Pte. F. Camp, Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (14997 Pte. F. Camp, Bedf. R.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque (Frank Camp), extremely fine (4)

Frank Camp was born at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire and was still living there at the time of his enlistment in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He first saw action with the 1/6th Battalion in France, which theatre of operations he entered on 30 July 1915.

Subsequently transferring to the 1/5th Battalion, he saw further action in Egypt and Palestine, up until his death through wounds on 29 March 1918. Aged 24, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Camp of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery.


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